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Micha Danzig

Attorney Micha Danzig writes widely on Israel, antisemitism and Judaism. Active with a number of Jewish organizations, he serves on the board of Herut North America.

A Michigan Senate campaign goes full-blown antisemitic, working in money, power and land grabs.
America destroyed Japanese cities at the end of World War II and was not guilty of genocide.
Run the sequence together, and Jewish history plays out in four notes: wholeness, brokenness, alarm, wholeness restored.
In chatter about a proposed entertainment business merger, Hollywood’s court Jews weigh in on the side of antisemitism.
The world keeps trying to return the gift.
Its framework—demonization, delegitimization and double standards—has quietly become respectable across a far wider swath of the Democratic Party than most people realize.
Absent is a decade-plus of anti-Jewish violence that led up to the Arab Revolt. That is only one of many omissions in this supposedly “historical” story.
There is a painful irony here: Gehry would later design buildings that refused to “hide”: structures defined by openness, irregularity and defiance of convention.
It’s about discomfort over American Jews exercising political agency in ways that upset far-left fantasies and far-right conspiracies.
It is the oldest song in the region: Blame the Jews, and demand their removal.
When Christians or Jews are the victims, and the attackers are Islamic extremists, terms like genocide or terrorism suddenly become too “loaded.”
The British government approved fighter jets for Turkey, while it embargoes arms for Israel based on the “risk” of how they will be used.